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Forms: légitime, légitimes. - It's a **legitimate** question. C'est une question **légitime**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3142796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3142796) [\#11859784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11859784)) - The denunciator of success is the only **legitimate** executioner of the fall. Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul **légitime** justicier de la chute. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1044) - That is a serious and **legitimate** question. C’est une question sérieuse, c’est une question **légitime**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 611031) - **Legitimate** expectations and legal certainty Confiance **légitime** et sécurité juridique ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2221611) - 4. Has a **legitimate** source of income; d) Qui a des moyens de subsistance provenant d ' une source **légitime**; ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10388627) ## intérêts Used about 502 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 443). - From the point of view of Serbia's **legitimate** interests, he will be seen as the destroyer of Serbian interests. Il restera celui qui aura réduit à néant les **intérêts** serbes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1991724) - The consensus of the majority **legitimates** the one-party system as the political representative of the workers ' and the entire nation ' s vital interests. La légitimité du parti unique est accréditée par le consensus majoritaire qui soutient le Parti communiste comme force politique représentant les **intérêts** vitaux des travailleurs et de toute la nation. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 13850533) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - We consider it the citizens' **legitimate** right to have public libraries. Nous croyons qu'il est évident que les citoyens ont le droit d'avoir une bibliothèque publique. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#22991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/22991) [\#393228](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/393228)) - It's a **legitimate** worry. C'est une inquiétude justifiée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1522197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1522197) [\#1522377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1522377)) - Are the objections to the airport **legitimate** or is it just a case of nimbyism?‎ Est-ce que les arguments contre l'aéroport sont justifiés, où est-ce que c'est juste un cas de « pas de ça chez moi » ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lovasoa and lovasoa · checked, community translation · [\#4759534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4759534) [\#4759543](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4759543)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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